Quotes About Knowledge

Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts. Henry Rosovsky

Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields...

Price controls and the direct allocation of resources by political institutions require much more explicit knowledge on the part of a small number of planners than a market economy requires so that it can be coordinated by prices to which millions of dollars respond. people based on first-hand knowledge of their own circumstances and preferences, and the relatively low prices that each individual must handle.

To understand most of the discussions about economics that take place in the media and in politics, all you need is to know the most basic economic principles. However, most of the people are unaware of them, including politicians, journalists and many academics from other fields.

Given the scarcity of mental resources, an economy in which knowledge and vision have such a decisive advantage in market competition is an economy that has great advantages in creating a high standard of living for the general population. A society in which only members of a hereditary aristocracy, a military junta or a single political party in power can make great decisions is a society that wastes much of the knowledge, vision and talent of the majority of its members. own people.

Para entender la mayoría de las discusiones sobre economía que se producen en los medios de comunicación y en la política, lo único que se necesita es conocer los principios económicos más básicos. No obstante, la mayor parte de las personas los desconocen, incluidos políticos, periodistas y muchos académicos de otros ámbitos.

Some things must be done on faith, but the most dangerous kind of faith is that which masquerades as "science.

If we do not do this work, if we do not collaboratively call into question a system of knowledge that delights in accumulation by dispossession and profits from ecocidal and genocidal practices, if we do not produce and share stories that honor modes of humanness that cannot and will not replicate this system, we are doomed.

She's not crazy; she's just educated... Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. —Albert Einstein

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

Why must people always assume we moderns knew more than any of the previous cultures? It simply isn't true, evidence proves otherwise.

Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.

Tis said that wisdom comes to those who seek it." -Christopher

It was nice, them having this kind of knowledge about each other. No one else knew this about him. She supposed in every person there were bits of you that you shared only with the people you had been a child with.

When I want to know a thing, I resort to books and feel strangely exposed without books to fall back on, as though standing on a ledge.

It is human nature to believe that the phenomena we know are the only ones that exist," Marie wrote, "and whenever some chance discovery extends the limits of our knowledge we are filled with amazement." She was talking about radioactivity, but she could almost have been talking about the supernatural: "We cannot become accustomed to the idea that we live in a world that is revealed to us only in a restricted portion of its manifestations.

we are theological amnesiacs;

And a lot he knows about office work, not .

The lover of books is a miner, searching for gold.

Allein schon das Wissen, dass einen am Ende eines langen Tages ein gutes Buch erwartet, macht diesen Tag zu einem glücklicheren.«

Put your nose in a book. That's the best thing for you.